New Moon ° True Mid-Winter ° Gate of Power with our great guide true alchemist Micah Nilsson, a living treasure of alchemical plant lore. This New Moon at exact mid-season is available for us to animate: tis when Ishtar, Inanna, Persephone (all the mythic animations of creatively dancing with Nature) lights their candle and begin ascending from the Underworld – and we with her.